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Huia
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I have been enjoying the T shirt slogans thread and it occurred to me that some of my favourite books have lines that stay in my memory long after I have read the book. They may be funny or thought-provoking or leave me with a sense of completion.
Jane Austen's - It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man of good fortune must be in want of a wife. is one of the best known opening sentences in a novel. So what are your favourites?
Mine - from Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so"
And from Madeline the first book I loved as a child. '"Thank the Lord that you are well and go to sleep,'" said Miss Clavell. And she turned out the light and closed the door. That's all there is, there isn't anymore".
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From my favourite childhood book Through the Looking Glass, the whole of chapter 11: '...and it really was a kitten, after all.'
Yes, I am owned by several cats ![[Smile]](smile.gif) .
And the line that always gives me shivers of delight (no doubting from where): 'Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!'
Maybe I just have a thing about animals... ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
And of course from the wonderful Miss du Maurier: 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.'
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"May I?" he said. And he did
Uncle Pumblechook, Great Expectations (Dickens)
And another
"What wind blows you here Pip?" (Miss Havisham)
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Welease Woderwick
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I collect these for my miscellaneous quotes file and a favourite for the moment comes from Mark Haddon's A Spot of Bother
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But god, the woman could make you feel greedy and self-centred just by the way she wore a shapeless fawn cardigan.
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ElaineC
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"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." from 1984 by George Orwell
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Firenze
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'It is not the object of this work to give a description of Derbyshire'. (J Austen)
Good quote for writers - ie, stuff the lyrical evocation of landscape and Get On With It.
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"And ever Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that were beaten." Le Morte D'Arthur
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For when you're old, or ill and particularly in the coffin
It's no trouble to behave
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"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
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Hedgehog
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“Marley was dead: to begin with.” -- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
What a great way to start a story! Actually, the first 2 paragraphs are delightful, but I realize we are to limit ourselves to one-liners.
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Two appropriately churchy first lines:
'Had the Dean's daughter worn a bra that afternoon, Norman Shotover might never have found out about the Church of England; still less about how to fly' — A.N. Wilson, 'Unguarded Hours'.
'"Take my camel, dear", said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.' — Rose Macauly, The Towers of Trebizond.
(The latter book also has what is perhaps the most poignant final sentence, which is written as a paragraph unto itself: 'That seems, indeed, the eternal dilemma'. Now, granted that's not terribly poignant out of context, but in the context of the astonishing final chapter, it's a real tear-jerker).
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Welease Woderwick
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Armistead Maupin in Maybe the Moon:
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Like I’ve always said, love wouldn’t be blind if the Braille weren’t so damned much fun.
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venbede
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Here's Barbara Pym at the very opening of her first published novel, "Some Tame Gazelle", managing both to sum up her themes (female interest in unobtainable but unsatisfactory males)and anticipate her parodists:
The new curate seemed quite a nice young man, but what a pity it was that his combinations showed, tucked carelessly into his socks when he sat down.
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venbede
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And from Angela Carter's Wise Children
She was going on about it as if it were a matter of life and death. We knew that nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
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Welease Woderwick
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From the excellent Last Train to Innocence by Jayabrato Chatterjee:
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Badibua was never pleased with anything or anybody and she had mastered the knack of making other people’s lives miserable.
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venbede
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And Jane Austen Emma
It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.
And the entire text of The Importance of Being Earnest.
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venbede
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That's wonderfully Chandlereque. I was going to post the opening of The Big Sleep but thought we were only allowed to post one liners.
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Firenze
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He was good, wasn't he? I like -
'IT WAS ABOUT ELEVEN O’CLOCK in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.'
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Welease Woderwick
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A fabulous bit of Graham Greene from Travels with my Aunt:
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I sometimes believe in a Higher Power, even though I am a Catholic.
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venbede
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That is just what I was going to post, Firenze.
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Og, King of Bashan
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My favorite Graham Greene one liners come from the last two pages of The Heart of the Matter. Hard to pick one, but I'll go with quote:
For goodness' sake, Mrs. Sconce, don't imagine you- or I- know a thing about God's mercy.
And you could do a whole discussion on the best Wodehouse one liners, but I'll go with the classic, which I think stands up well on its own, but is even funnier in the original context:
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She was definitely the sort of girl who puts her hands over a husband’s eyes, as he is crawling into breakfast with a morning head, and says. ‘Guess who!’
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venbede
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Madelaine Basset! It is profound that she ends up marrying the fascist Roderick Spode. Sentimentality is indeed the partner of fascism.
My favourite Wodehouse is from the village hall chapter of The Mating Season. The whole lot is glorious but I'll go and check out the description of the vicar introducing it.
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venbede
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The Mating Season P G Wodehouse
"A tall, drooping man, looking as if he had been stuffed in a hurry by an incompetent taxidermist, it became apparent that he was not one of those boisterous vicars who, when opening a village concert, bound on the stage with a whoop and a holler, give the parishoners a huge Hello, slam across a couple of travelling-salesman-and-farmer's- daughter stories and bound off, beaming."
Not just looking stuffed.
Not just looking stuffed in a hurry.
Not just looking stuffed in a hurry by a taxidermist.
But stuffed in a hurry by an incompetent taxidermist,
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Welease Woderwick
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Ngaio March uttering a truism in Death of a Peer:
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There’s something inherently vulgar in fashion.
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Firenze
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There are some lines from Shaw's days as a music critic stay with me: not just the famous quip about Brahm's Requiem ('to be endured with equanimity only by the corpse') but the likes of: 'the other day, being in want of a headache, I went to the music hall... '. Or on the performance of some soprano - 'the memory of which is, as I write, reconciling me to the grave'.
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Welease Woderwick
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Some words of wisdon from Niccolao Manucci, the author of a book now known as A Pepys of Mughal India - he travelled here in the second half of the 17th century:
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Travelling is a teacher of many things, and he who wanders without learning anything can only be said to have the head of an ass.
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Lyda*Rose
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quote:
The King was pregnant.
~from The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
This was evidently LeGuin's seed sentence for the entire book, a story set on a planet where all adults morphed either male or female for a few days of sexual activity every few weeks. And, of course, if one got pregnant, she would remain female until the birth and weaning.
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Lord Jestocost
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"Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He’s the King, I tell you."
No prizes...
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Welease Woderwick
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A wonderful line from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini:
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He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
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mousethief
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"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Kelly Alves
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"Her tone had an upholstered confidence that was both regal and vulgar at once. It demanded a few moments of silence in its wake, like the ringing of a church bell or the playing of taps" (8.)-Brownies, Z.Z Packer, describing the queen bee bully of a Brownie troop.
Well, two liner, but they really needed to hang together.
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
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quetzalcoatl
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Beckett. Worstward Ho.
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quetzalcoatl
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Perfume of embraces all him assailed. With hungered flesh obscurely, he mutely craved to adore.
Joyce. Ulysses.
It's just the Irish in me coming out. (That's not my favourite line).
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quetzalcoatl
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duplicate post.
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Paul.
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I quite like this:
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The key to living anywhere is to know how to live there – just ask any snail
M.M. Smith, The Servants.
Oh and did someone mention Chandler?
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…there was a broad stained-glass panel showing a knight in dark armour rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn’t have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair. The knight had pushed the vizor of his helmet back to be sociable, and he was fiddling with the knots of the ropes that tied the lady to the tree and not getting anywhere. I stood there and thought that if I lived in the house, I would sooner or later have to climb up there and help him. He didn’t seem to be really trying.
from The Big Sleep.
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Firenze
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All of the Myles naGopaleen Buchhandlung columns, including -
'Not less than six volumes to be inscribed with forged messages of affection and gratitude from the author of each work, e.g.... 'From your devoted friend and follower, K. Marx.'... 'Short of the great pleasure of seeing you personally, I can only send you, dear A.B., this copy of "Nostromo". I miss your company more than I can say... (signature undecipherable).'
Under the last inscription, the moron who owns the book will be asked to write (and shown how if necessary) the phrase 'Poor old Conrad was not the worst.'
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From Why Catholics Can't Sing by Thomas Day
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Hail Mary:Gentle Woman by Carey Landry requires special attention here because it provides a superior example not only of musical whimsy but of whimsy gone berserk.
Try YouTubing it - see if you agree!
And from the same volume
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Even at that tender age I knew that in our relatively prosperous parish, which claimed to have "one of the finest adult choirs in the archdiocese", only the deaf willingly attended High Mass.
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'Frederick had been the kind of husband whose wife betakes herself early to the feet of God.'
From Elizabeth von Arnim's The Enchanted April
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Another Austen, again probably no prizes necessary:
"It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself!"
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Hedgehog
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Perhaps this is technically a two-liner, but it is short enough to be granted an exemption:
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know." Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
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Wendy Cope always cheers me up. Here she is on Kindness to Animals:-
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"But the lamb is not endangered
And at least I can truthfully say
I have never, ever, eaten a barn owl
So perhaps I am OK."
It's not really a favourite book, but this is a gem from Svetlana Alllelyova, Stalin's daughter. It says so much about the old Russia as it inhabits our imaginations.
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"People were a lot more honest and emotional back in those days. If they didn't like the way it was, they shot themselves. Who does that kind of thing now?"
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I'm quite fond of: quote:
"Reader, I martyred him."
Brenchley, Chaz. - Dead of light
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Another Hitchhiker's, this is Arthur after Ford asks him how he feels.
"Like a military academy," said Arthur, "bits of me keep on passing out".
Zaphod at the restaurant:
"You guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off."
And from 1066 (but a 3 liner!):
Charles I was a Cavalier King and therefore had a small pointed beard, long flowing curls, a large, flat, flowing hat, and gay attire. The Roundheads, on the other hand, were clean-shaven and wore tall, conical hats, white ties, and sombre garments. Under these circumstances a Civil War was inevitable.
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“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
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Huia
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I'm sorry that my specifying 'one liners' has limited some people - it may have been better if I had said, "short quotes" still it's good to see shippies going ahead regardless of the ineptitude of the original post.
Venbede - I love your sig, which was part of my inspiration in launching this thread.
From The Red Tree a picture book by Shaun Tan and one of the best books at describing the experience of depression.
"sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to and things go from bad to worse darkness overcomes you nobody understands the world is a deaf machine..."
In writing that I've just realised that he doesn't use conventual punctuation, but allows the turning of the page to act as punctuation. It's brilliant because it captures the relentlessness of feeling depressed.
Huia
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"Oh," said the Bright Young People. "Oh,oh oh".
From Evelyn Waugh's description of a rough crossing of the Channel in Vile Bodies.
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Firenze
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quote:
Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
And from 1066 (but a 3 liner!):
Charles I was a Cavalier King and therefore had a small pointed beard, long flowing curls, a large, flat, flowing hat, and gay attire. The Roundheads, on the other hand, were clean-shaven and wore tall, conical hats, white ties, and sombre garments. Under these circumstances a Civil War was inevitable.
I've found the categorisation Wrong but Wromantic vs Right but Repulsive has stood me in good stead over the years.
Favourite HGTTG is probably -
'It's unpleasantly like being drunk'
'What's unpleasant about being drunk?'
'Ask a glass of water'.
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My current sig is Stephen Maturin to Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, published circa 1972.
"Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas."
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About the King and the Duke in Huckleberry Finn quote:
They gave several temperance lectures, but they didn't raise enough money to get drunk.
Moo
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